That was never a discussion point by me. I haven't discussed Mirabal and I'm not upset we landed Cantwell. I don't blindly trust our evals though. I do believe the end result will be good enough to not be a weakness and if we want to all agree on something that is a good starting point.
I think Mirabal is a better teacher than Searles. You can even argue Mirabals groups more consistently outperform what Searles units have done. But you also can't ignore the high end talent UGA has pumped into the draft with different coaches since Kirby took over.
UGA is a machine. They recruit the best players (including at OL) and have good coaches. Searels just isn't one of them.
What are we calling a hit?
**** I forgot about Bell
we got fans that have gotten a lil weird about Mario/Mirabel an his ol and development. This is like the twilight zone.....
Can't get more accurate than this post, but this is the actual answer we need once and all. For the "I trust _____" narrative to be settled. The problem I could see coming in to play would be the amount of 3*s signed in comparison to other schools. I remember some thinking that because we had more 3* drafted than Alabama and Georgia it meant we were better at developing 3*s.
Whether you take 4 or 6 Olineman every year out of HS, you still only have 5 starters yearly. And now you have to factor in NIL budgeting. If over a 4 year sample size we take three 5-stars, six 4-stars, and nine 3-stars, that's 18 Oline recruits over 4 years to fill 5 jobs yearly (total of 20starting jobs over 4 years). I'd consider that a pretty good well-balanced overall recruiting return as far as star ratings are concerned and how we should be investing our NIL. The expectation is likely that the 5-stars are starting 2-3 years, at least half the 4-stars start 2 years, and maybe 3 of the 3-stars start 2 years? Okay well each of those players is going to be on different timelines, because they have 5 years of elligiblity, but that's still a combined 18 starting jobs right there just with those basic numbers which seem reasonable to me - and only a hit rate of what 50% for the 4-stars and 33% for the 3-stars? Yet if it leads to 4 years of quality starting Olines, who gives a ****? Okay and all that was just with 4.5 Olineman/yr. What if it's closer to 6, especially now that we are going to 105 scholarships? Okay well if the end on-field product is the same but it's done with 6 recruits yearly instead of 4.5, what changed?
